The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 473 or 473?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 473?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|473| = ?
The absolute value of 473 is the distance between 473 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 473:
Since the distance between 473 and 0 on a number line is 473, we get the answer as follows:
|473| = 473
Note that the absolute value of 473 can also be written as abs(473) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 474
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